Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe railed against President Donald Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement before he was arrested while he protested Huntington Beach, California’s, proposed plaque in front of a library that was designed to spell out “MAGA.”
“MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans,” the ex-NFL player said at a city council meeting Tuesday.
“MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide,” Kluwe continued. “MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy.”
“MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” he added.
"I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience," Kluwe said before he began to approach the panel of city councilors and was arrested by police officers who handcuffed him on the ground.
